-Nothing like Vertigo is likely to be encountered in the course of one''s regular reading. One emerges from it shaken, seduced, and deeply impressed- Anita Brookner, Spectator
What could possibly connect Stendhal''s unrequited love, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, the Great Fire of London, a story by Kafka and a closed-down pizzeria in Verona? Part fiction, part travelogue, the narrator of Sebald-s compelling masterpiece pursues his solitary, eccentric course from England to Italy and beyond, succumbing to the vertiginous unreliability of memory itself.
-As a reader, you find his prose wrapping itself, wraith-like, round your imagination, casting a baffling and indefinable spell- [Sebald] entertains, provokes, stimulates and inspires- Robert McCrum, Observer
